The story follows an Iowa teen trying to come to grips with his own sexuality as he and his friends cause a deadly genetically engineered plague that unleashes an army of six-foot-tall praying mantises with an insatiable appetite for fighting, food, and fornicating. [Source: Deadline]

Fire Sermon“Guardians of the Galaxy” co-scribe Nicole Perlman has been hired to adapt the first book of Francesca Haig’s young adult sci-fi novel trilogy “The Fire Sermon” for Dreamworks.

The story is set centuries into a post-apocalyptic future in which humans are born in sets of twins, one perfect, the other with mutations. The mutations are segregated into separate settlements. This follows a brother-sister pair and what happens when he becomes the leader of one side. [Source: Heat Vision]

Tommysaurus RexTom McCarthy (“The Visitor,” “The Station”) is co-writing with plans to possibly direct Universal’s long-in-the-works adaptation of Doug TenNapel’s 2004 graphic novel “Tommysaurus Rex”. John Bland is also working on the script.

The story follows a boy who loses his pet dog, moves in with his grandfather and becomes the subject of bullies. When he discovers a Tyrannosaur in a cave, he must prove to the townspeople that this new pet isn’t a harmful beast. [Source: Heat Vision]